This easy-to-read modern tablature should be completely faithful to Francois Campion's original tablature. Let me know of any errors you find. Donald Sauter.

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Short ID:  FC16.
Title:     Sarabande.
Composer:  Francois Campion.
Source:    Nouvelles decouvertes sur la Guitarre.
           4th manuscript page inserted after page 10.
Date:      1705.
Facsimile: Minkoff (1977), page 30.

Tuning:    Bb D G C F (tuning 1).
Time sig:  3.

Fixes and modifications (M=measure r=rhythm s=string): none.

Tablature elements to be added by hand:
  Slurs. If only a starting point is given, slur includes all the following 
  uninterrupted notes on the same string. 
    M1 r4-5s3.
    M8 r5s3.
    M11 r4s2-r6s2.
    M13 r1-3s1, r5-6s1.
    M14 r1s3, r5s3.
    M15 r3-4s1.
    M17 r1s2, r5s2.
    M18 r1-3s4 (original started on s3), r5-6s5.
    M19 r2-3s2.
    M20 r2s4, r5-6s3.
    M21 r1s3, r5-6s3 (original started on s4).
    M22 r2s4.
  Take a moment to fill out the 16th-note beams.

Strums: Arrowheads ^ and v indicate strums. Open strings in strummed chords 
  were not shown in the tablature; add as many open strings as sound good. 
  Take a moment to re-draw the ^ arrowhead right at the top of the associated 
  stem, just under the beam if a beam is present.    

Explanation of symbols: 
  " = trill (starting on upper neighbor). 
  , = mordent. There are none in this piece.
  . = do not strum this string in the chord. 

Performance style: I am unclear about the appropriateness of inegales rhythms 
  in this piece. If 8th note passages are played inegales (which sounds right 
  to me), how do you treat written-out 16th notes?

Leading measures in Campion's original tablature:
  1 5 8 11 14 18 21 24 26. Last measure is 28.


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                                  Sarabande.                                FC16: Page 1 of 1.
  Bb D G C F (tuning 1).  Leading measures: 1 10 18 25.                      Francois Campion.

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